Task 4, step 1

TNK-BP will:

1. Observe the requirements of applicable legislation and other normative legal acts in the area of health, safety and environmental protection in countries where the company has its operations;

2. Gradually and persistently tighten requirements in the areas where more rigorous requirements are established by international standards;

3. In the area of occupational safety and health:

- Protect staff against injuries, and company’s assets and facilities against damage by creating healthy and safe working conditions and taking measures for physical protection of the company’s operational facilities to prevent entry by unauthorized persons to such facilities and the possibility of criminal or other unlawful acts;

- Take actions to improve working conditions and industrial safety and to prevent accidents in the workplace and occupational diseases;

- Provide mandatory social insurance of staff against accidents in the workplace and occupational diseases, and ensure compliance with sanitary norms as well as medical treatment and preventive services to staff in accordance with labor safety requirements;

- Provide work permits to those who meet the relevant qualification requirements and do not have medical contraindications for the work concerned;

- Provide employees with safety clothing, safety footwear and other personal protective equipment in accordance with established standards and working conditions, and monitor personal and collective protection equipment availability and its correct application by staff.

4. In the area of industrial safety:

- Within the context of the health and safety management system, set up and regularly verify the efficiency of operational control in company organizations. Ensure efficient use of the findings of behavioral audits, bearing in mind that all company’s employees and company contractors, with whom the relevant agreements are concluded, are obliged to fulfill HSE requirements, and that line managers are accountable for understanding and managing HSE risks;

- Carry out a comprehensive assessment of hazardous factors and risks, develop and carry out appropriate compensatory measures;

- Organize an industrial safety review of buildings and certification of workplaces in respect of working conditions in the company’s operational facilities;

- Ensure that normative legal and technical documents stipulating the rules for safe conduct of work in the relevant workplaces are available in all company operational facilities;

- Ensure the registration of hazardous operational facilities of company’s organizations in the State Register;

- Ensure the drafting and timely revision of Industrial Safety Declarations in companies listed in the Official TNK-BP Group List comprising hazardous operational facilities;

- Carry out diagnostics, testing and certification of installations and technical devices used in hazardous operational facilities. Ensure that the procedure and conditions of use are complied with and that an industrial safety review is conducted on technical devices in hazardous operational facilities belonging to company organizations, listed in the Official TNK-BP Group List;

- Execute risk liability insurance contracts for damage caused by the operation of hazardous operational facilities belonging to company where required by internal law.

5. In the area of the prevention of accidents, injuries and emergency situations:

- Provide supervising authorities with accurate and timely information on accidents and workplace injuries or damage caused to the environment in compliance with the applicable legislation of the countries where the company has its operations;

- Ensure that every accident, incident or workplace injury is internally investigated and recorded, their causes and conditions contributing to their occurrence are analyzed, appropriate preventive measures to remove and prevent them are developed and implemented;

- Develop emergency situation containment and response plans (ERP) and oil, oil products, and produced water emergency spill response plans (ESRP) in TNK-BP organizations, and train employees in responding to accidents and incidents at hazardous operational facilities;

- Contract with professional emergency rescue teams or units for the provision of services or set up similar in-house teams or units within company organizations;

- Provide for financial provisions and material resources for incident containment and response;

- Set up systems for observation, notification, communication and support of actions in the event of accidents in Subsidiaries, listed in the Official TNK-BP Group List;

- Take measures to prevent emergency situations, protect life and health of employees when such situations occur, including the provision of first aid to casualties.

6. In the area of environmental protection:

- Minimize adverse impact of the company’s operational facilities on the environment (the atmosphere, water sources, soil, subsoil).

- Take into account requirements of governmental bodies and public opinion when any operational decision is taken.

- Perform remediation of land contaminated in the course of the company’s operation, carry out soil clean-up on all oil producing land;

- Evaluate environmental risks and take all possible technical and economic measures to mitigate these risks, and make sure that spill prevention and response capabilities are available and adequate;

- Assure the compliance of project solutions with the current Standard; carry out environmental impact assessment for all projects; make environmentally conscious decisions and exercise rigorous supervision over implementation of all scheduled measures to reduce a potential negative impact on the environment;

7. Organize training and certification of employees in the area of health, industrial safety and environmental protection;

8. Suspend and delay, at its own discretion,the resumption of work if there is a potential health and safety threat ;

9. Require that all parties working on the company’s behalf recognize that their actions or inactions can impact onthe company’s image and business, and that they must operate to the company’s standards;

10. Hold all managers within TNK-BP accountable for accomplishing the HSE goals by implementing appropriate HSE behavior, clearly defining HSE roles and responsibilities, providing necessary resources and by measuring, reviewing and continuously improving the company’s HSE performance:

- Develop company business plans with measurable HSE targets, and involve all employees in meeting these targets;

- Present information on both the positive and negative results of its HSE performance;

- Encourage those who contribute to improved HSE performance.